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    Upend

    By Rosalyn Wraight

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    From author Rosalyn Wraight: Four short stories that set motivational sayings on end.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDon't Waste Daylight
    Release dateSep 6, 2015
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    Rosalyn Wraight

    Rosalyn Wraight is the author of the Detective Laura McCallister mystery series, the Trinity MacNeil paranormal mystery series, and the Lesbian Adventure Club series.

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      Upend - Rosalyn Wraight

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      Contents

      Copyright

      Cookery

      Forging Ahead

      Heir Unapparent

      Bloom

      About the Author

      Copyright

      Upend, a short story collection

      © Copyright 2015 Rosalyn Wraight

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      The car clunked just as Nora Butler shoved it into park. She removed the keys from the ignition and punched the garage door opener. After getting out, she immediately dropped to her knees to peer under the car as she had done a hundred times before. Maybe this time she’d figure out where the clunk came from, before whatever it was fell off. With her luck lately, though, she felt certain that it would happen while she was going 70 on the freeway. Soon, it wouldn’t matter. Soon, nothing would.

      Giving up, she rose and headed into the garage to retrieve the wheelbarrow. As she pushed it around the house, the late afternoon sun stung her neck, making her skin feel as tight as the muscles it concealed.

      A moment later, she approached the lemon trees lining the back of her property. Again, she dropped to her knees, this time to gather the fruit that had fallen since the day before. She ignored the neglected yard and focused on the task at hand. It took her 15 minutes to fill the wheelbarrow and another five to get it back to the garage where she dumped the harvest into the large heap inside. Then, she opened the back of her car, removed the numerous bushels of lemons, and chucked their contents into the pile. Except for one, the fullest one, which she set just inside the door to the kitchen.

      She hit the

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